Re: List of Cranks here

From: Franz Heymann (notfranz.heymann_at_btopenworld.com)
Date: 03/10/05 

Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2005 22:47:23 +0000 (UTC)

"Gregory L. Hansen" <glhansen@steel.ucs.indiana.edu> wrote in message
news:d0plpu$m7o$2@rainier.uits.indiana.edu...
> In article <d0ovug$1rs$1@nwrdmz01.dmz.ncs.ea.ibs-infra.bt.com>,
> Franz Heymann <notfranz.heymann@btopenworld.com> wrote:
> >
> >"Tom Potter" <tdp@earthlink.net> wrote in message
> >news:398632F5v5evpU1@individual.net...
> >>
> >> "Franz Heymann" <notfranz.heymann@btopenworld.com> wrote in
message
> >> news:d0l915$a67$3@nwrdmz01.dmz.ncs.ea.ibs-infra.bt.com...
> >> >
> >> > "Tom Potter" <tdp@earthlink.net> wrote in message
> >> > news:395i2cF5vm03tU1@individual.net...
> >> >
> >> > [snip]
> >> >
> >> >> As my pappy used to say,
> >> >> "A stuck pig squeals."
> >> >
> >> > Indeed you do. Your Pappy was wiser than you
> >>
> >> I squeal about people that attack messengers
> >> rather than address messages,
> >
> >You've worked that saying to death by now.
> >Buy a few new ones.
> >
> >> and the people who instigate conflict and war
> >> for power and riches.
> >
> >Ditto
>
> It's like watching Saturday morning cartoons. Tom isn't a real
person,
> he's a two-dimensional character with predictable respons
> When faced
> with novelty, he just forces it into a cliched response about
communist
> Jews, the cost-effectiveness of relativity, or how everyone is
squealing
> like a stuck pig except for himself. We might as well be talking to
the
> cartoons on the TV, because what we get back has about as much
relevance
> and insight.

Butch, from Jerry & Tom comes to mind. 

-- 
Franz
"A first-rate laboratory is one in which mediocre scientists can
produce outstanding work"
P.M.S. Blackett

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